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Last week, the Senate adjourned Sine Die with many accomplishments to be proud of. Over the course of the 2018 Legislative Session, we made history by passing Georgia’s largest-ever personal income tax cut, expanded access to health care and broadband in rural areas of the state, and passed measures to benefit our state’s public servants, veterans and their families.
As I have mentioned in previous columns, one of the legislature’s main goals this session was to expand access to broadband in rural communities. This goal was achieved on the final day of the session and we have put Georgia’s rural communities on the path to a greater economic development. Both the Senate and the House adopted the Conference Committee Report for Senate Bill 402, also known as the Achieving Connectivity Everywhere (ACE) Act. The ACE Act will allow broadband service providers seeking to deploy broadband services to utilize the public rights of way at no added cost to the state. The providers would work with the Georgia Technology Authority and local governments to develop a comprehensive plan for the deployment of broadband services. In addition, the bill creates a new community designation known as “Broadband Ready,” which will be administered by the Department of Community Affairs. Once a community has gained this designation, it will become eligible for benefits such as additional funding from the OneGeorgia Authority. These are just a few of the many provisions contained in the bill that will put Georgia on the path to providing full broadband coverage across the state.
To aid our state’s public servants, both chambers passed House Bill 703, which creates the Office of Public Safety Officer Support within the Department of Public Safety. The new office will provide public safety officers coping with PTSD and related traumas resulting from their service in the line of duty with counseling services from a fellow public safety officer who is trained to do so. We ask so much of our men and women in uniform, and sometimes we forget that they could use some help, too. The new office would allow qualified public servants to offer peer-to-peer counseling to fellow officers in need.
Both chambers also passed House Bill 65 last week, which allows for the creation of a Joint Study Commission on Low THC Medical Oil Access. The commission will be tasked with studying all aspects related to the in-state access to medical cannabis and its effects. In addition, the bill adds two new groups to the list of those eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry. This group now includes those suffering from “intractable pain” and PTSD. As I described in last week’s column, while Low THC Medical Oil may not be the answer for every patient, it may be the solution for some and this especially applies to our veterans. Our service men and women sacrifice so much to protect our freedoms — the least we can do is offer another alternative for those coping with PTSD. I will be very interested in the Study Committee’s findings, and look forward to working with its members to review any recommendations once their work is complete.
Our final week also saw the passage of legislation to create the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund, which will be used to benefit our state’s public lands and promote conservation and management best practices. The fund will be set up in two parts, one of which requires your vote. House Resolution 238 proposes a constitutional amendment, which will be placed on the ballot for voters to decide later this year. If HR 238 passes, then House Bill 332 will take effect. HB 332 sets up the fund and would direct up to 80 percent of the sales and use taxes collected by sporting goods stores or outdoor recreation establishments to be dedicated to the newly-created fund. This is not a tax increase but just a redirection of funds for this very special purpose.
It is all said and done in 2018 and we have passed several pieces of legislation to benefit the people of Georgia. While our work at the Capitol for the legislative session may be done this year, that doesn’t mean my work is done for the great people of the 47th District. I will continue working over the interim in study committees such as the Senate Advanced Communications Technologies and Use of State and Local Government Right of Way Policy Modernization Study Committee resulting from the passage of Senate Resolution 1019, which I sponsored. Additionally, I will be meeting with members of our community to see how I can best serve you in the years to come. I thank you for the opportunity to represent us under the Gold Dome, and my lines remain open if I can be of assistance in any way.
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Sen. Frank Ginn serves as Chairman of the Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee. He represents the 47th Senate District which includes Barrow and Madison counties and portions of Clarke and Jackson counties. He can be reached at 404-656-4700 or by email at frank.ginn@senate.ga.gov.

The biggest news at the end of the 2018 session of the Georgia General Assembly was passage of an appropriations bill that for the first time in many years fully funds our schools.
The final week of the session, the Governor’s office raised by $194.7 million the revenue projection for the fiscal year that starts in three months. Gov. Nathan Deal recommended that most of that money be used to fully fund the Quality Basic Education formula for K-12 schools.
We have worked so hard on school funding since 2011, when Nathan Deal became governor and I became chair of the House Appropriations Committee. At that time, the Great Recession continued to take its toll on state revenues. Georgia only had enough reserve funds to operate the government for two days, and our HOPE scholarship funds were nearly depleted.
By working with the governor, the legislature was able to pass budgets the past eight years that restored all but a $166.7 million shortfall in the Quality Basic Education funding formula. In FY 2019, that gap finally is filled, and that is why there was a standing ovation in the House when the appropriations bill passed.
What this means locally is that Barrow County schools will receive an additional $1,392,414 for the full QBE restoration.
And a new initiative that started in the House — $16 million for the purchase of equipment to make schools more secure — also is in the bill, directing $116,875 in safety grants to Barrow County schools. Beyond that, the House is undertaking a House Study on School Security to recommend additional steps that can be taken in the 2019 session to make our students, teachers and staff safer.
In addition, the appropriations bill for FY2019 fully funds the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia, which together will receive $2.47 billion. And with additional money for the Teacher Retirement System, school buses, HOPE scholarships and early learning and Pre-K programs, education agencies will receive a combined total of $14 billion of the state’s $26.2 billion in appropriations in FY2019. That means 54 cents of every dollar will be spent on education.
We have done this — and much, much more — while building reserve funds to $2.3 billion and passing the first income tax cuts in the state’s history.
The session also was a win for the more than 13,000 children in foster care. We not only raised by $10 per day the per diem to foster parents, but we also rewrote the Adoption Code to make it easier to get the children into permanent families.
Another big winner in this session was rural Georgia and economic development statewide. The very last bill we passed before adjourning, in fact, was HB 951, which establishes the Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation.
The reason why most of the initiatives of the House Rural Development Council were successful during the session is because rural Georgia’s needs now have the full attention of the state’s leadership. We will dig even deeper in the coming months and produce our final report in time for the 2019 session.
By far, the 2018 session was the most historic one I have witnessed. It took tremendous effort, sometimes nearly around the clock, to reach its successful conclusion.
But it absolutely would not have happened without you, your support and your prayers. Thank you for this opportunity to represent you. May God bless you and your family, Barrow County and our great state!
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Rep. Terry England has served in the Georgia House since 2005. District 116 includes most of Barrow County. In addition to chairing the House Appropriations Committee, he is an ex-officio member of the Ways & Means Committee and a member of the Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee, the Education Committee, the Industry and Labor Committee, and the Natural Resources and Environment Committee.

Is it true that we enjoy the smaller things in life more the older we get?
It seems that is the case.
Recently I found myself enjoying the simple joy of having a blue sky above with plenty of sunshine. Our recent weather has been a mix of warmth, cold, rain and wind. In Georgia we always seem to have a mixed bag when it comes to our weather.
As a child, we really don’t notice things like the rain or the sun. If it’s raining, so be it. If it’s a clear day, that’s great too.
It isn’t until we get older that we begin to appreciate little things that as children we so often took for granted. It probably has something to do with the fact that as adults our lives are filled with more stress. From work to bills to countless other responsibilities, we can’t help but feel bothered when the small things we take pleasure in are taken away, even for a little while.
It’s those things which help us get through the winter blues and sprint full-speed into spring.
Some of the things which are no longer taken for granted from my perspective include:
•birds singing in the backyard after we take more food and water to them. Their bright colors always help cut through the grayness of winter and remind us that spring truly is not far away. Even now that we are officially in spring I love to see the red birds fly in as soon as I leave food for them.
•a peaceful day off after several consecutive days of work.
•talks with an old friend and how you realize that even though your childhoods were years — decades — ago, that those events of yesterday are only a conversation away.
•the blooming flowers which are more evident now that we are in April.
•the closeness of your co-workers and realizing your life wouldn’t be the same without them on a daily basis.
•the times when the power bill is opened and my heart doesn’t stop for a moment.
•memories of columns by Lewis Grizzard, Celestine Sibley and Furman Bisher.
•when the auto repair shop tells me that nothing needs working on under the hood.
•the enjoyment of holding a new book in your hands and beginning the process once again of discovering the contents within.
•how an old movie or an old song can take you back to the year they were released.
•the site of an old barn in a field that can still be seen from time to time off the highway. There’s one not far from where I live and I always make a note to glance over at it as I pass by.
•memories of the Steelers and Cowboys meeting in the Super Bowl back during the ‘70s. More focus was on the game then and not all the hype and hoopla.
•those friends who check in on you daily. Yes, it’s easier to do with e-mail, texting and such, but knowing someone thinks enough of you to do so does mean a great deal.
•for the times when the phone doesn’t ring in the middle of the night or very early in the morning. We all know it usually is not good news at those hours.
•those who have guided us, influenced us and encouraged us during our adventures in life. From family members to friends, we should never take anyone we care about for granted. Nothing is guaranteed in life from one week to the next or one day to the next. It’s why we should all be thankful for those little things which make life more enjoyable.
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Winder resident Chris Bridges is a former editor of the Barrow News-Journal. You can send comments about this column to pchrisbridges@gmail.com.

In a split vote Tuesday, Winder City Council narrowly approved a construction contract bid for a joint sewer line project with Barrow County after concerns were raised about the city’s recommendation against the two lowest bidders.
The roughly $4.15 million contract with Moorhead Construction, Inc., of Belton, S.C., is for the third and final phase of the Auburn Sewer Line Project — otherwise known as the Cedar Creek Sewer Line Project. As part of the project, an existing 12-inch line will be replaced by a new 24-inch line for additional capacity. Construction of the new line will provide the county access to the Cedar Creek Wastewater Recovery Facility’s 1 million-gallon-per-day capacity at a cost-sharing rate of 70 percent by the county and 30 percent by the city, which was outlined in a 2010 intergovernmental agreement.
The vote was 4-3 with councilmen Jimmy Terrell, Chris Akins and Travis Singley opposed. Councilmen Sonny Morris, Michael Healan and Al Brown voted in favor, and Mayor David Maynard broke the tie.
The county board of commissioners, which is scheduled to hold its regular bi-weekly meeting next week, will also have to approve the contract award.
The contract price includes a 10-percent construction contingency. Moorhead’s bid of roughly $3.8 million was the third lowest among 10 submissions. The lowest bidders — Strickland and Sons Pipeline, of Gainesville, and The Dickerson Group, of Lawrenceville — were recommended by city staff to be removed from consideration because of a previous negative history with the city. One had been involved in legal proceedings against the city and the other one, according to the city’s judgment, did not perform well, Maynard said.
Terrell said he was concerned the city didn’t accept the low bid, and he questioned why city and county officials had not met about the submitted bids.
See the full story in the April 4 edition of the Barrow News-Journal.

A Mississippi-based banking company will acquire the parent company of BrandBank and take over all 13 locations, including the one on North Broad Street in downtown Winder.
Renasant Corporation, the parent company of Renasant Bank, and Brand Group Holdings, Inc. jointly announced last week the signing of a merger agreement, in which Brand will merge with and into Renasant.
The deal, valued at about $452.9 million, is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, “subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals and the approval of Brand’s shareholders,” according to a news release.
The proposed merger was approved unanimously by both company’s boards of directors recently.
Founded in 1905, the Brand Banking Company had approximately $2.4 billion in total assets, $1.9 billion in total loans (excluding mortgage loans held for sale and $1.9 billion in total deposits as of Dec. 31, 2017, according to the release.
Founded in 1904, Renasant had about $9.8 billion in assets. It has 180 banking, mortgage and wealth management offices in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee.
“The ability to partner with a 113-year-old company with strong talent in one of the most attractive markets in the country is a tremendous opportunity,” said Renasant chairman and CEO Robin McGraw in the release. “We believe this merger will significantly enhance our Atlanta presence.”
See the full story in the April 4 edition of the Barrow News-Journal.

Former Carl mayor David Brock will be returning to the post later this month.
Brock was the only candidate to qualify during a special-election qualifying period for the vacant seat last week, according to city clerk Deana Davis. There won’t be a special election as planned for May 22 and Brock has automatically won the seat, Davis said. He will be sworn in at the town council meeting April 19. Brock, who previously served as mayor of the roughly 1-square-mile town with a population of less than 300 people for 19 years, lost a re-election bid, 24-19, to Joshua Godfrey in November. Godfrey, however, resigned March 15, citing personal reasons.
“I didn’t get my summer off,” Brock joked Monday before adding he was looking forward to getting back to work. “It had kind of been my theme song all these years, that nobody wanted the job. I thought (the re-election loss) was a win-win where I could be more of a public advocate for the town from the outside.”
Brock said his top priority at the start of his second stint will be seeing through the resurfacing of the town’s portion of Carl-Bethlehem Road.
“We’re really just a part-time, grass roots government,” he said. “Everybody is in there just to serve the community, it’s never been about any other platform. I just look forward to getting the town back online again and making sure we’re as good a neighbor as we were in the past.”

As work continues on the updates to the Barrow County Service Delivery Strategy (SDS), the Town of Bethlehem approved designating its sewer territory.
At the town council meeting on Monday, the council approved the territory to include the city limits as they are now and as future annexations.
Mayor Sandy McNab said, “We can partner with whoever we want, Barrow County, City of Winder, Harrison’s, to get sewer in our territory.”
“Designating your sewer territory puts you in the driver’s seat, so to speak,” said city attorney Ron Bennett. “No one can make you sewer it.”
McNab said the city could possibly seek grant funding in the future to run sewer lines or possibly form a public/private partnership.

OTHER BUSINESS
In other business at the monthly meeting:
•the council approved a tree assessment on East Star and Angel streets in the rights-of-way. McNab said a portion of one tree had recently fallen and the rest had to be removed at a cost of $1,500. He said at least one other tree is rotten in the middle and several have dead limbs in them.
•McNab said he was working on getting pricing for crack sealing on Gifton Thomas Road and King Avenue.

Candidate qualifying was held March 5-9 for the three Barrow County Board of Commissioners seats and five county board of education seats up for election this year. At least one Republican candidate qualified for each seat, but only two Democrats qualified countywide. That means, barring any petition or write-in candidacy, only two of the combined eight seats will be contested come the November general election.
Is it healthy to have such little competition?
Look at the county commission seats. All three incumbents will face a challenger in the May 22 Republican primary, but there are no Democrats running for any of the three seats, so the makeup of the next commission effectively will be determined over the next two months as the candidates make their pitches to Republican voters. Then there will be almost six months of absolutely nothing. If any of the three challengers win, they’ll be waiting more than seven months to take office. And if that’s the case, that means the incumbent, who the majority of their district’s voters will have decided shouldn’t represent them anymore, would still have more than half a year to represent them.
On the board of education side, four of the five board members who were up for re-election decided not to seek another term. The one incumbent is not facing any Republican primary or Democratic opposition so she is virtually guaranteed another four years.
That leaves four open seats, but only two of them will actually be contested. Meanwhile, two other Republican candidates, by virtue of being the only ones to qualify, have a clear path to their respective seats. One is a former school board member; another, though well-known and active in community organizations, has never been a school board member. And though she may very well excel in that role, she will be representing the whole county, so wouldn’t voters from across the county be interested in more than one perspective to choose from?

REPUBLICAN VS. DEMOCRAT?
And what is the point of these county-level seats being partisan?
Barrow County’s makeup is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and not surprisingly the county GOP is much more developed, organized and influential than the Democratic Party here. Realistically speaking, unless there is some major scandal that affects either of the two school board candidates who will face opposition in November, they’re going to be elected. With the party label next to their name, Democrats in Barrow County face an extreme uphill climb in getting elected to the county commission or school board. That certainly plays a part in the party’s shortage of candidates here.
With research, you can find a number of arguments for both partisan and nonpartisan local elections.
One of the arguments in favor of partisan elections is that nonpartisan elections are skewed toward wealthier candidates. According to proponents, less wealthy and lesser-known candidates may be disadvantaged.
But is that really any different from partisan elections? As much as we’d all like to think of ourselves as supporting the candidate who’s for the common man’s interests, the dominant color of politics is green.
There have been a number of Republican presidential candidates over the years who have had similar messaging to the conservative populist themes of Donald Trump’s campaign. But Trump was the one with the celebrity stature and the international brand.
Aside from some of Bernie Sanders’ devout and unapologetically socialist beliefs and Lincoln Chafee’s proposal for the U.S. to adopt the metric system, you’d be hard-pressed to find any significant policy differences between the Democratic candidates. But Hillary Clinton had the name recognition, the wealth and the influence, including the backing of the upper brass at the Democratic National Committee.
Money and power will always talk in politics, whether at the national, state or local level. Just about every community has its movers and shakers, and Barrow County is no exception.
Another argument for partisan elections is it gives voters a more transparent ballot by providing more information about the candidates and could even increase voter turnout.
Recently our company’s paper in Madison County reported on a county commission meeting in which no action was taken on a proposal to make all elections there nonpartisan.
“We believe voters should know when they cast their vote whether they’re voting for a Democrat or a Republican,” the county GOP chairman said to the commission. “The transparency of the ballot is important to maintain conservative principles in local government. And removing party from the ballot will allow candidates to hide behind the non-partisan designation. Removing party from the ballot will muddy the water for voters who do not have personal relationships with the candidates.”
But I think back to a conversation I had a few months ago with a member of the Barrow County GOP, who expressed his displeasure with the performance of the Board of Commissioners and questioned whether his commissioner was really a conservative Republican. In fact, several people in this reliably Republican community have said at public meetings, in emails and conversations with me, and on our website and social media that the elected officials around Barrow County and its municipalities have taken too much of the taxpayers’ money, or not been fiscally disciplined, or both — when fiscal discipline and keeping your hands out of the taxpayers’ pockets are supposed hallmarks of the party.
In my view, party politics really shouldn’t be so influential in local government, especially on school boards which face plenty of educational issues that don’t always fit neatly into Republican or Democratic camps.
Local government should be about providing services and not about political positioning for a move up the ladder.
As a voter, you should know where a candidate stands, especially and most importantly at the local level where you are impacted the most on a regular basis. Having partisan elections makes it just as easy, if not easier, for voters to put aside the research and for a candidate to “hide.”
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Scott Thompson is editor of the Barrow News-Journal. He can be reached at sthompson@barrownewsjournal.com.

Do you have to be wealthy to run for governor?
You might come to that conclusion after paging through the financial disclosure statements that candidates were required to file with the state ethics commission last week.
On the Republican side, three of the five major candidates profess to be millionaires: their total financial assets exceed their total liabilities by at least $1 million.
State Sen. Michael Williams (R-Cumming) has been doing poorly in the polls but quite well on the balance sheet.
Williams sold a chain of Sport Clips barber shops in 2013 and walked away with a lot of money in the process. He now has a net worth of $9.1 million, the highest of any of the Republicans running.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp wasn’t far behind Williams with a net worth of $5.2 million, the money primarily coming from agriculture-related businesses in which Kemp invested.
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is the leading money-raiser among Republican candidates with nearly $7 million reported so far, but he’s only in the middle of the pack when it comes to personal wealth. Cagle’s reported net worth is $1.58 million.
Clay Tippins, a former Navy SEAL who’s now a business consultant, disclosed a net worth of $745,000, while former Army officer Hunter Hill is at $448,000.
There are two fringe Republican candidates for governor who most likely will finish with only a handful of votes on election day. But both of them appear to be in decent financial shape on the personal level.
Eddie Hayes, an Athens restaurant owner, reported a net worth of $1.26 million. Marc Alan Urbach, a former teacher who lists his current occupation as “author,” claims to have a net worth of $953,000 (he also says he would be Georgia’s first Jewish governor if elected).
Hayes and Urbach are the longest of long shots in this race, but neither of them will have to take a pauper’s oath to run.
Over on the Democratic side, the two candidates in the race are attorneys and former legislators named “Stacey.”
Stacey Evans of Smyrna is a trial attorney who was awarded a sizeable legal fee when she successfully represented a client in a whistleblower lawsuit involving Medicaid fraud. She has put $1.2 million of her own money into her campaign, but still reported a net worth of $5.2 million.
Evans still owes $45,449 on student loans she took out while attending the University of Georgia and has an outstanding bank loan of $24,800, but it looks like she will have the fiscal resources to pay them off as they come due.
The one exception to all of these solvent candidates for governor is Stacey Abrams, who was the House minority leader before stepping down last year to devote full time to running for governor.
Abrams’ personal finances, to put it politely, are a mess.
She reported a net worth of only $108,885. She owes the IRS $54,052 in back taxes, although she said there is a plan in place to pay them back (ironically, as an attorney she has specialized in tax law).
Abrams still owes $96,512 on student loans she took out to pay the costs of attending Spelman College, the University of Texas and Yale Law School. She has had some problems with credit card debt as well and still owes about $75,000 in that category.
None of this is criminal or unethical, of course.
Abrams’ opponent in the Democratic primary, as we have already noted, also has some hefty student loan balances to pay off. Abrams has talked often about the financial sacrifices she has made to care for her parents.
She also is not the first person ever to fall behind on their credit card payments. Just ask millions of cash-strapped Americans.
There has been no indication yet that Evans will make an issue of personal finances in the Democratic primary race, but if Abrams should get the Democratic nomination, then all bets are off.
In that instance, you can look for the Republican nominee to run TV commercials claiming that Abrams’ financial difficulties are proof she’s a “free-spending liberal” who wants to squander the taxes paid by “hard-working Georgians.”
When you’re a non-millionaire running for statewide office, that’s going to happen to you.
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Tom Crawford is editor of The Georgia Report, an internet news service at gareport.com that reports on state government and politics. He can be reached at tcrawford@gareport.com.

You have to wonder how in the world one of the world’s premier law enforcement agencies could fall from grace.
It’s not a just fallen situation. It’s a major catastrophe for the United States.
We can only hope that The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will cleanse itself from its self-implosion and rise again from the ashes like the “mythological phoenix.”
The FBI isn’t just any law enforcement organization.
There was a day when it might have been the world’s best criminal investigation unit. It certainly played on the same fields with the British MI5 and the Russian FSB organizations.
MI5 is a British Military Intelligence version, while MI6 identifies the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the principal security agency of Russia and the primary successor agency to the Soviet Union’s Committee of State Security (KGB).
With all that’s going on in Washington now, there probably isn’t very much international or domestic official interaction occurring as all eyes look to see how far the FBI will fall.
This isn’t supposed to happen. The FBI is supposed to be untouchable. The current political situation has greatly damaged the work and ability of the FBI.
While the American Bureau is charged as our country’s primary domestic intelligence and security agency, it also serves as our country’s principal law enforcement agency.
What’s really going to hurt us is the fact that our FBI has an international presence working in embassies and consulates around the world. We have to be concerned about our international intelligence gathering abilities, as well as investigative cooperation from other countries.
The finger has to point at the upper management levels of the FBI.
There appears to be little doubt that former FBI Director James Comey and Acting Director Andrew McCabe are culprits in the fall. From appearances, it looks as if both crossed the line on multiple times and had misplaced loyalties.
It will be interesting to see if either survives and that may depend on how much they really know about the “deep state” and other operatives in the swamp. The waiting list may have just gotten longer.
There are still too many issues with Comey’s relationship with the Clintons. There are unanswered questions about a lack of investigation into the Democratic National Committee campaign funding, the entire Russia debacle, Hillary Clinton’s emails and computer equipment, as well as the destruction of subpoenaed documents and computers.
Other questions regarding Comey’s early preparation of a draft clearing Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing and his relationship with the Clintons remain unanswered.
Justice Department (JD) veterans, Republican and Democrat, have gone on record saying Comey’s actions did not follow JD rules and procedures. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein publicly stated Comey “…made some serious mistakes.”
Prior to these developments Comey is reported to have accepted millions of dollars from a Clinton defense contractor and he (Comey) also served on a Clinton Foundation corporate partner’s board.
McCabe is under the gun as well and the Justice Department fired him just before he could retire and draw full benefits.
The JD, after an internal investigation, said McCabe lied to investigators who were investigating the Bureau’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Supposedly, McCabe also “…made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor-including under oath — on multiple occasions,” according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Fox News reports.
McCabe is also a player is the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant investigation which involves potential and identified abuses in connection to the Russian probe.
The former FBI agent could also be indicted over withholding information from the investigation involving Clinton’s email server.
In addition, Judicial Watch has subpoenaed JD records that it feels will show McCabe used FBI resources to assist his wife in a 2015 campaign run for a Virginia senate race. His wife received nearly $700,000 from a couple of political action committees. One is run by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and he allegedly has a commanding voice in the other.
McAuliffe is reported to be a good friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The web along the swamp bank is getting bigger.
Meanwhile, the FBI motto remains, “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.”
Scary, isn’t it?
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Jimmy Terrell is retired from a career in law enforcement in Barrow County and is a Winder city councilman. He can be reached at ejterrell65@gmail.com.